Not every source goes dark with a slammed door. Some just get quieter, one deleted row at a time. Hawaii's Office of Consumer Protection keeps its breach notices in a single web table — and across two months of 2026, that table lost more than half its entries.
What happened. We read the page on every poll, and the row count told the story: 138 notices through April, 90 by May 9, 55 today. This wasn't a migration dropping rows by accident. When the office rebuilt its site in 2026 it re-posted its older letters, then added nothing new and kept trimming the list. The status light stayed green the whole time — the page loads, the poll succeeds. A health check sees a working source. It cannot see a shrinking one.
Why it matters. A breach notice doesn't stop being true when a state takes it off a web page. Older Hawaii filings — some more than a decade old — name real companies and real resident counts, and they're exactly the records a journalist or a plaintiff's lawyer reaches for years after the fact. Once a row is deleted and the original letter 404s, the only proof it was ever published is whatever someone archived.
What we saved. Across every snapshot of the page, 135 distinct notices were ever published. We already held 50 of them; 84 more — spanning July 2007 to March 2024, and naming companies like TD Ameritrade (33,157 Hawaii residents), Health Net, PenFed, and Wyndham — survive in the open only in the web archive. We recovered all 84, each sourced to its archived snapshot, and folded them back into the record. Hawaii now accounts for 134 filings in our corpus.
How we caught it. A frozen-looking page is not proof a source is dead — it can equally mean the source is being pruned. The only way to tell them apart is to diff what you hold against what the archive proves was once published. That check is what surfaced the 84-row gap here, and we run it for any source that goes quiet.
How we're watching. Hawaii's live feed still works, so we keep polling it and pick up anything new it does post. But the direction of travel here is subtraction, not addition — so we treat our copy, not the state's page, as the record of what Hawaii once disclosed.